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[Lilo]

Welcome to all newcomers!

[Katriina ❆]

Hey everyone,
My name is Katriina, I'm a student, writer and panzer tank enthusiast. Currently I'm still in school - high school - my main focus being on business, economics and history. I'm from Finland, but I'm living in Germany at the moment.

Apart from Tanks I have a huge interest in the Holocaust, but most of my WWII themed books are about the SS, Wehrmacht, Hitlers foreign affairs and alot of "Third Reich's secret policies" as that's what I need for my A-Levels (or whatever the Abitur is called in English.) You do, most fortunately, get alot of WWII themed books where I live.

I'm looking forward to meeting people with the same interests and stumbling across some nice books! :)

[happy]

Welcome Katrina

You should be able to find a few books here to fatten up your TBR list :)

[Katriina ❆]

happy wrote: "Welcome Katrina

You should be able to find a few books here to fatten up your TBR list :)"

Oh why, I already found lotssssss of interesting books. Such a shame that I didn't find this group before.

Thank you! :)

[Mike, Assisting Moderator US Forces]

Welcome to the group Katriina. You will find some knowledgeable panzer enthusiasts here. Glad to have you here and feel free to jump into any topics you want to.

[Geevee, Assisting Moderator British & Commonwealth Forces]

Welcome Katriina and pleased you found us. Please feel free to join in on the threads.

[Colin]

Katriina. ♥ wrote: "Hey everyone,
My name is Katriina, I'm a student, writer and panzer tank enthusiast. Currently I'm still in school - high school - my main focus being on business, economics and history. I'm from F..."

Katriina, one of my books, The Star of Africa was published in Finnish, which you may like, given your interests.

['Aussie Rick', Moderator]

Hi Katriina and welcome to the group, I hope you find a few things of interest here and you enjoy yourself.

[Howard]

I originally joined to discuss old board wargames and their computerization. I see there is so much interest in good books about WWII. I think I have read hundreds. The BEST I have ever read is SHATTERED SWORD. It completely corrects decades of false history about the battle of Midway. The documentation is excellent. It is an outstanding example of how erroneous assumptions that become "true" from years of repetition can be unraveled. Even if naval warfare is not your bag, you should read this book.

['Aussie Rick', Moderator]

Hi Howard, "Shattered Sword" is a book I am yet to read, I hope to do so soon!


by Jonathan Parshall

[Dj]

In my not so humble opinion, it is one of the best books on the Pacific War ever written. Even if it only covers one battle.

It only has one downside. If you don't know anything about the battle of Midway, you should skip it until later. Other than that it is flat awesome.



'Aussie Rick' wrote: "Hi Howard, "Shattered Sword" is a book I am yet to read, I hope to do so soon!


by Jonathan Parshall"

[carl]

Howard wrote: "It is an outstanding example of how erroneous assumptions that become "true" from years of repetition can be unraveled. "


a good endorsement for the book, any fer examples ?

[happy]

If you read Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway in conjunction with Craig L. Symonds


you get a pretty good look at the battle from both sides.

[Geevee, Assisting Moderator British & Commonwealth Forces]

This is worth a read as it is the official account:

History of US Naval Operations in WWII 4: Coral Sea, Midway & Submarine Actions 5-8/42 by Samuel Eliot Morison

and this is worth a run through too:

Midway 1942: Turning Point in the Pacific by Mark Stille

['Aussie Rick', Moderator]

Hi Mack and welcome to the group, that's a great story about your dad, I bet he had a lot of interesting stories to tell! I hope you find a few things of interest here in the group and hope you can join us in some of the theme reads.

[carl]

Howdy Mack, so you're looking for more reading material ... it's possible that could happen here.

[Charles]

Hello,

My name is Charlie Smith, and I'm an author from Negaunee, Michigan. While I am interested in a broad range of both WWI and WWII topics, the aviation side of both wars piques my interest just slightly more than anything else.

[happy]

Let me add my welcome to Matt and Charles

Be warned = you're TBR lists are likely to grow exponentially and please feel free to join in the discussions - we don't bite :)

Matt great story about your father, he has by gratitude for his service

Charles it's always great to have another aviation buff here!

[Mike, Assisting Moderator US Forces]

Hi Mack and Charles, welcome to the group. Jump right in!

[Edward]

I have somewhat an interest in history as I like to know what happened, ( who, what, where, why and when). Really enjoy first person accounts, it seems to bring the past to life and give it perspective. Look forward to hearing what others find excellent reads.

P.S. This is where you end up when following Happy. :)

[Geevee, Assisting Moderator British & Commonwealth Forces]

Welcome gents and pleased you found us. Please feel free to join in and help us all to expand our knowledge of this area :)

['Aussie Rick', Moderator]

Welcome Charles and Edward, I hope you both have an enjoyable time here in the group and find a few good books and discussions of interest.

[Mike, Assisting Moderator US Forces]

Welcome to the group Edward. Now that happy has you here, he will try to fill your TBR shelves with all sorts of good books...but so will many others.

[Colin]

Edward wrote: "I have somewhat an interest in history as I like to know what happened, ( who, what, where, why and when). Really enjoy first person accounts, it seems to bring the past to life and give it perspe..."

Edward: You may like our books, or go to Heaton-Lewis Books or Amazon. All of our books are first person accounts.

[happy]

Welcome to the group Edward

[Stosch]

hi my names franken stan i recommend everyone read The Unauthorized World Situation Report: A Second Look at the Twentieth Century and Its Aftermath. some of its shit but it gets you questioning what they taught us in school.

[Lilo]

Welcome to the group, all newcomers!

['Aussie Rick', Moderator]

Hi Franken and welcome to the group, I'll check out your book recommendation a bit later as well.

[happy]

Welcome Franken

[Eric]

Hello, all.

[happy]

Hello Eric

[Bob]

I am unsure where to post things as there are so many sites in goodreads. The theme read this month seems to be telling of a WWII hero. All of our men who fought were heroes, but my favorite was my father in law, Oscar Weber. His story is more interesting than many as he was such a character. I tell his story in my book "From Shaniko to Pearl Harbor." The Weber family of three were standing on the dock at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attack began. The copy of the book is priced at $14.95, but if any of the good readers would want one, I would sell it to them for $5.00. It has been well received and our leader Aussie Rick posted a nice review of it. Many copies have been sold at Pearl Harbor.
To give you an idea of the type of man Oscar was, I will quote from the book where he was out retrieviing dummy torpedoes during practice. One of the 2 man planes got into trouble and was going to crash. The pilot panicked, through back his canopy so he could parachute to safety. This locked the other man in, the plane crashed and he died. They signaled Oscar to pick up the pilot, but Oscar ignored the signal. At the inquiry they asked him why he didn't pick up the pilot. Oscar replied that the s.o.b. had just killed his shipmate and I figured he could swim to shore!

[Mike, Assisting Moderator US Forces]

Welcome Eric and Franken.

['Aussie Rick', Moderator]

Hi Eric and welcome to the group.

[Hung]

Hi, my name is Hung. I'm a high school student and also a war-story lover. Nice to meet everyone!

[Manray9]

Hung wrote: "Hi, my name is Hung. I'm a high school student and also a war-story lover. Nice to meet everyone!"

Welcome, Hung. Please feel free to join in.

[happy]

Hung

Welcome to the group, please feel free to add your thoughts - we don't bite.....................much :)

[Mike, Assisting Moderator US Forces]

Hung wrote: "Hi, my name is Hung. I'm a high school student and also a war-story lover. Nice to meet everyone!"

Welcome to the group and jump right into any discussion that interests you. Lots of great war stories to be found here.

['Aussie Rick', Moderator]

Hi Hung, welcome to the group, I hope you have an enjoyable time here.

[Craig]

Hello there, my name is Craig, i read all types of books but with a particular interest in ww2, looking forward to joining in on the discussions and also reading some reviews etc. Already discovered a heap of new titles to keep me going!, cheers.
P.S., Thanks for the welcome message 'Aussie Rick'!

[Doubledf99.99]

your in the right place Craig, an welcome aboard.

[happy]

Welcome Craig - I look forward to your comments

['Aussie Rick', Moderator]

Hi Craig, welcome to the group, I'm glad you have found a few books of interest, I'm sure you will find heaps more as we all have :)

[Lilo]

Hi, all newcomers. Welcome to the group.

[Chin Joo]

Dear Hung and Craig,

Welcome. You'll learn a lot from here even just by reading the comments.

[Mark]

Eric wrote: "Hello, all."

Eric, I like your photo with the violin. My paternal grandfather served with the Marine Corps in WWI on the Western Front. During the Occupation of Germany he played the fiddle as an official member of his battalion small theater group to entertain his comrades and try to put the war behind them. Back in the states he kept the same violin always under his bed.

[Geevee, Assisting Moderator British & Commonwealth Forces]

Welcome Hung and Craig. Please feel free to join in and I look forward to "talking" books with you.

[Eric]

Thank you kindly Mark. I play mostly old fiddle tunes and gospel songs. (Back to the topic at hand) I'm about to start "A Stranger To Myself" by Willy Peter Reese. It's basically a translation of a German soldier's diary on the Eastern Front. It looked interesting.

['Aussie Rick', Moderator]

Keep us posted on your book Eric, it sounds like it will be an interesting story.



by Willy Peter Reese

[Barbara]

Hello group,
With family members that fought in France during WW2 and others that lived there before the war, I'm particularly interested in French aspects.

Barbara